I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.

People in extreme conditions are suddenly naked, realer than normal, perhaps even more alive.

I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.

I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated.

I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.

Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.

Misha's importance and distinctiveness are beginning to be noticed, there's beginning to be some kind of rip-tide here that will soon become a wave of recognition for a book that the world is beginning to catch up to... We weren't ready before. We'd better be ready now. Because it's the 21st century, any minute now, and that means that Misha's time has come. In more ways than one.